Glove-fastener



(No Model.

E. J. ,KRABTZER. GLOVE FASTENER- No. 507,623. Patented Oct. 31,1893.

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EDWIN J. KRAETZER, OF GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THECONSOLIDATED FASTENER COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 507,623, dated October31, 1893.

Application filed April 11, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN J. KRAETZER, of Gloversville, in the county ofFulton and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Glove-Fasteners, of which the following is a fullspecification.

My invention relates to fasteners for gloves and other articles andconsists especially of an improved resilient button hole member attachedto one flap of the material, and constructed as hereinafter described,to be used in connection with an unresilient button member of anydesired construction attached to the other flap of the material, andadapted to engage with the said button hole member.

Referring to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a sectional view ofmy complete button hole member. Fig. 2 shows in elevation a form of studadapted to engage therewith. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the cover.

a Fig. 4 of the doubly flanged retaining piece,

Fig. 5 of the combined resilient socket and anvil piece, and Fig. 6, ofthe clinching eyelet.

My improved button hole member is preferably made in four parts orpieces, A, B, O and D. Of these B is the socket or resilient part of thebutton hole and consists of a flanged eyelet having a tubular portion,the walls of which are preferably nearly perpendicular with the flangeand rounded in at its lower end to form a re-entrant mouth I). Thispiece is rendered resilient by means of one or more slits B, as shown inFigs. 1 and 5. It is moreover provided with the rounded anvil surface bacting in the manner presently to be described.

When the parts forming the fastener are in place, the flange of theresilient socket B rests on the outer curved flange c of the doublyflanged retaining piece O, both pieces B and 0 being held Within thecover A by rounding in the tubular portion a thereof around the saidouter curved flange c. A suitable hole being made in the material towhich the button hole member is attached, the parts A, B and O joinedtogether as described, are placed on the upper surface thereof with thetubular portion of the socket projecting downward through the hole. Theflange clinching eyelet D is then passed upward from beneath with itstubular portion around Serial No. 347,498- (No model.)

and outside of the tubular portion of the resilient socket. With theparts in this position pressure is applied between suitably shaped diesand the upper edge of the clinching eyelet D being pressed up againstthe curved anvil surface b of the socket is turned outward over the topof the inner flange o of the retaining piece 0, thus tightly securingall the parts together and to the material, as shown in Fig. 1.

The clinching eyeletD is preferably provided at its upper end with theoutwardly flaring portion (1 in order to more readily be turned outwardand over the inner flange of the retaining piece 0 when the said upperend engages with the rounded anvil portion 17 of the socket. I alsopreferably construct the doubly flanged piece C in such a manner thatthe top of the inner flange 0 thereof is bent outward, as shown tofacilitate the clinching together of the parts.

The raised inner flange c on the retaining piece 0 is of considerableimportance since it raises up the flanged socket B allowing it to set upagainst the top of the dome or cover and takes the place, in a sense, ofa separate filling, which would necessarily have to be employed betweenthe top of the cover and the flange of the socket B, were there no suchflange c.

The re-entrant mouth b of the resilient socket clasps the contractedneck g of the stud G which is mounted in any desired manner on theopposite flap of the glove or other article, while the tubular portionof the said socket B contains the head of the stud within it when thetwo parts are sprung together.

I claim- 1. The button hole member of a fastener consisting of a flangeslitted socket-forming eyelet having a re-entrant mouth I) incombination with a doubly flanged retaining piece 0, a cover A and aflanged clinching eyelet D, passed up from beneath and clinched underthe flange of the socket-eyelet above the surface of the material towhich the fastener is attached, substantially as described.

2. The button hole member of a fastener consisting of a flanged slittedsocket-forming eyelet having a re-entrant mouth I) and the rounded anvilportion b in combination with a cover A, aflang'ed clinching eyelet Dpassed In witness whereof I have hereunto set my up from beneath andclinched under the hand.

flange of the socket eyelet above the surface of I A TZER the materialto which the fastener is attached EDWIN KR E 5 and a retaining piece Chaving a raised inner Witnesses: v

flange c, substantially as and for the purposes CHAS. M. HARRIS,

described. WM. B. H. Dowsn.

